Trump teases 'loading up' Abraham Accords with new nations after Middle East shakeup

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that other nations have suggested they would like to join the Abraham Accords amid current Middle East shakeups that saw Israel and the U S inhibit Iran's nuclear ambitions during what has been coined the -Day War We have certain really great countries in there right now and I think we're going to start loading them up because Iran was the primary trouble the president described Maria Bartiromo during an sole Sunday Morning Futures interview this week We had a period of time when I thought Iran would join the Abraham Accords along with everybody else and frankly they would have been better off than where they are right now he continued TRUMP SAYS US WOULD STRIKE AGAIN IF IRAN REBUILDS NUCLEAR PROGRAMThe Abraham Accords which sought to normalize relations between Israel Sunni Gulf States and North African countries was signed at the White House during the first Trump administration in September US special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff revealed last Wednesday that expanding the accords is one of the president's key objectives and predicted that the administration will have certain big announcements on countries coming into the accords soon Last week White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt named Syria as one of the nations the president was keen to join noting their historic meeting in Saudi Arabia earlier in the year When the president met with the new president of Syria that was one of the requests he made for Syria to sign onto the Abraham Accords Leavitt disclosed TRUMP SAYS HE'LL DROP SANCTIONS ON SYRIA IN MOVE TO NORMALIZE RELATIONSOne of the largest Hebrew-language outlets Israel Hayom lately communicated that Israeli National Protection Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi explained the Middle Eastern countries majority likely to join are Syria and Lebanon Trump responded to the prospect of Syria's entry on Sunday I don't know if they will join but I did take off the sanctions at the request of particular of the other countries in the area that are friends of ours I took off the sanctions on Syria the sanctions are biting They're very strong and we have sanctions on Iran too Middle East expert Eugene Kontorovich a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington D C just now narrated Fox News Digital With Iran humiliated Lebanon and Syria are quite realistic but I would be impressed if it were soon as in months I do expect them to make peace with Israel and come into the Abraham Accords during Trump s term He added that Syria could be achievable only because the new leadership has so much to gain as it seeks legitimacy